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"Humoresque" is a
chapbook by E. Tracy Grinnell, published by Blood Pudding Press. (Tracy is the publisher of
Litmus Press.) It's a series of Sapphic quatrains circling around
Moreau's painting of
Sappho. It's a quick and beautiful read that also deserves a second reading right away. It made me smile the "archaic smile" that Grinnell refers to (doubling the title of
A. E. Stallings's first book,
Archaic Smile), with its "tangled" music:
Betrayed or awash in a mere while tides areSlow to tempest, slower unleashing songs ofTangled instruments and the faceless cries forPrecision, collapseThe sequence's "operatic I" puts a new spin on
Descartes: "I think therefore I cannot see undoubtless."
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